I wonder if Derek Fisher mentioned to the Saints that he’s a diehard Dallas Cowboys fan.

In any case, Fisher’s championship experience and motivational speaking made him a logical choice to rev up the defending NFL champion New Orleans Saints before their opening victory Thursday night over Minnesota. The Saints put out a photo of Fisher on the Superdome sideline next to usual NBA diehard fan Spike Lee.

Fisher isn’t the only Laker rep who’ll be at an NFL game on the league’s opening weekend. Lakers radio play-by-play man Spero Dedes will be doing his first NFL on CBS broadcast, working the Browns-Buccaneers game in Tampa with former NFL quarterback Rich Gannon.

There was a flurry of unfounded speculation last June that Dedes’ Lakers work would suffer with NFL broadcasts, but he clarified to me back then: “I’m doing two regular-season NFL games in September, but nothing that will affect my Laker schedule.”

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